When Michael Anastassiades visited India last December, to be part of a panel with Studio Mumbai’s Bijoy Jain at the AD Design Show 2022, he had said, “People feel very insecure in the absence of light.” So, when I got a chance to speak with him, we discussed his relationship with light — especially given that the designer was born in sunny Cyprus but now lives in grey London.
“My relationship to light is really being able to experience it in this kind of two extremes,” he says in his considered drawl. “And never really preferring one over the other. In a way that you go from one place where you have an abundance of light, and to another where they have deprivation of light.” But, he adds, the poetry of light “is not about the quantity. That is not how much light you need to produce”.
